My machine (ThinkPad x230) hangs on wake up from s2disk or s2ram after a recent aptitude safe-upgrade.† The hang looks like a blank screen with a blinking cursor in the upper right after loading data ...

I have a while loop in a bash script which should do something different at the beginning and at every 5 second interval. Any previous loop is allowed to complete. The 5s interval is indicated by the ...

My laptop (Notebook HP Pavilion g7t-1100 CTO) have been working fine till today, I enabled Virtual Technology in BIOS and from that time laptop doesn't want to wake up after I slept it. When I disable ...

I frequently notice the Apple logo lights up relatively briefly when the lid is closed on my MacBook Air running Debian Jessie. If I suspend with the lid open then the lock screen briefly appears and ...

I am running some simulations in Matlab on a Linux machine (running Debian Gnome v3.4.2).
All the scripts and heavy .mat files are in an external 1TB Toshiba hard-drive connected through USB 3.0 to ...

I came across this while troubleshooting why our server is doing down everytime the oracle process is killed. I listed the oracle process running on the server using ps aux | grep oracle and here is ...

I have an Ubuntu server running xdm with openbox on which is plugged a monitor that displays a video which is launched via a cron daemon.
When the monitor is not used for a certain amount of time, it ...

I need a series of commands or a single command that sleeps until the next occurrence of a specific time like "4:00" occurs.
How would I do that?
The at command or a cronjob is not a option because ...

I'm running Crunchbang on a laptop. I can't seem to find an option to toggle if the laptop goes to sleep when the lid closes. There are certain times where I want to put the laptop away or close it ...

I have a laptop with Linux Slackware 14, KDE 4.8.5, kernel 3.9.0-rc6. When I close the lid and pull out the power cord, the machine goes into sleep mode. When I wake it, plugging the cord back in and ...

Jiffies in most Linux system are defaulted to 250 (4ms). The questions is that what happens when a program has a usleep() less then 4ms ? Of course it works as should when it is scheduled. But what ...

When I wake up my computer, the internet automatically reconnects, however the VPN does not.
Is it possible to make it automatically reconnect (using the network manager on KDE, or at least in a way ...

So I develop my server app and some client apps for it. After each rebuild I start my server (which tends to load qup all services for something like 2 seconds) and then I start my clients... So his ...

I'm looking into installing a file server on my network, for serving data and backups.
I want this machine to be available at all times, but I would rather not keep it on all the time (as to conserve ...